Outlands College of Heralds

Unto Elisabeth de Rossingol, Laurel Queen of Arms, Margaret MacDuibhshithe, Pelican Queen of Arms, Jean Marie Lacroix,
Wreath Queen of Arms, and the College of Arms, upon this 27th day of August 2006, A.S. XL,
does Furukusu Masahide, Rampart Herald, send greetings.

Unless otherwise noted, submitters accept all changes, desire a name with
the common sense gender, and have no requests for authenticity. My deepest gratitude to those who took time to send internal
commentary: Canute, Gawain of Miskbridge (Green Anchor Herald), Ines, knut, Marie de Blois (Palmer Herald), Meradudd Cethin (Liber Herald).

Ailionóra MacFarlane. New name and device.
Per saltire sable and gules, on a saltire argent a rapier and a cat-o'-nine-tails in saltire inverted sable.

Gender: Female. Submitter cares most about the sound of the name, most especially the first two syllables, to be pronounced "EYE-lee". No major changes accepted.
Ailionóra - 1. Academy of St. Gabriel Report 1846 (http://www.s-gabriel.org/1846) - "<Ailiono/ra> is a Gaelic adoption of the name <Eleanor>...first example of the name in Ireland is a woman who died in 1497., but it is reasonable that it was used in Ireland at an earlier date." 2. Academy of St. Gabriel Report 1683 (http://www.s-gabriel.org/1683) - "...<Ailiono/ra>, a Gaelic form of <Eleanor>".
MacFarlane - Reaney & Wilson, p. 291.

Commenters indicate that the term "cat-o'-nine-tails" is dated via the OED to 1695, but the charge has been registered in at least two previous cases.

al-Barran, Barony of. New Badge.
Sable on a bell Or a Kano rune sable, a bordure Or.

Rampart comments that this badge was to be associated with a new order named "Order of the Antares Kano." The name submission was returned for further work.

al-Barran, Barony of. New Order Name: Order of the Hammer.

This follows the "Thing" pattern of order names found in Meradudd Cethin's article "Project Ordensnamen" (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/order), which says that "Thing" is the second-most common pattern and includes similar items, such as Hatchet, Sword, and Sickle. The word "Hammer" dates back to at least the Middle Ages, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary (http://www.m-w.com), which gives the Middle English form as "hamer", the Old English form as "hamor", and the Old High German form as "hamar".

Commenters indicate that this order name follows the general meta-pattern of "heraldic charge" as outlined in Pelican's article on order names in the August 2005 CL (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar/2005/08/05-08cl.html).
Commenters indicate that the OED under the header [hammer] defines it as the common sense tool: "an instrument having a hard head, usually of metal, set transversely to the handle, used for beating, breaking, driving nails, etc." Various spellings are documented as early at 1000, with the submitted spelling dated to 1555.

Arwa bint Haroun. New Name and New Device.
Per saltire vert and Or, a butterfly counterchanged within a bordure sable.

Gender: Female. No major changes accepted.
All name elements from "Period Arabic Names and Naming Practices" by Da'ud ibn Auda (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/arabic-naming2.htm) All names are referenced as being from the pre-1600 period.
Arwa - under "Women's Given Names".
bint - under "Arabic Naming Practices"
Haroun - under "Men's Given Names".

Ism changed from [Ara] to [Arwa] to conform to the updated version of the documentation which is a non-photocopy source and provides dated timeframe for the names. [bint] was changed to lowercase from [Bint] to conform with documentation.

The documentation indicates that the name [Caelan] is an Old Irish name. These are footnoted from Irish Names by O'Corrain & Mcguire and Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae by O'Corrain.
The documentation also indicates that [MacKinnon] is a late period Scots spelling of the Gaelic name [mac Fhionnghuine].

Commenters wondered if matching an early period Irish name with a late period Scots name was a violation of Rfs. III.1.a: Linguistic Consistency. Rampart is forwarding to Laurel to make this determination.

Mabell McEwin. New Name and New Device.
Purpure, a lily flower Or between three fleurs-de-lys argent.

Commenters indicate that in The Surnames of Scotland by Black, p 491, [mac Ewen] is dated to 1219 or earlier, [Makewin] and [Makevin] are dated to 1580, [McEwin] to 1581, as well as several other forms, but the requested form of [MacEwan] is not dated in the entry.

Name changed from [MacEwan] to [McEwin] to conform to documentation.

Máría Abramsdóttir. New Name and New Device.
Purpure, an angel volant to sinister argent.

Gender: Female. Submitter cares most about the sound of the name, and is interested in an authentic for Christian-era Norse name of 1000-1300 AD/CE. No major changes accepted.
Máría - Geirr Bassi Haralson, The Old Norse Name, p. 13 (as compiled on The Viking Answer Lady website (http://www.vikinganswerlady.com)). A.W.Brøgger and Haakon Shetelig, The Viking Ships - Their Ancestry and Evolution refers to a ship called the Mariasuden in 1184. Academy of St. Gabriel Report 2296 (http://www.s-gabriel.org/2296) lists "Marie" as a late-period Swedish name. http://www.sofi.se/GetDoc?meta_id=1472 - the website for SPRÅK- OCH FOLKMINNESINSTITUTET (Institute for Dialetology, Onomastics, and Folklore - Sweden) lists María.
Abram - numerous references on the site mentioned above (http://www.sofi.se) - referenced on The Viking Answer Lady Webpage (http://www.vikinganswerlady.com). "Finnish Names" by Rouva Gertrud (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/FinnishNamesArticle.htm), under heading "Abraham".

Surname changed from [Abramsdottir] to [Abramsdóttir] to conform to the Geirr Bassi documentation (p. 17).